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Los Angeles native Chicano musician and activist Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara — known perhaps most famously for his work with Frank Zappa — says his artistry has been “as much a spiritual calling as it was political.”
This season, enhance your experience with our extended playlists.
First published in 1936, "The Negro Motorist Green Book" helped African-American motorists safely navigate Jim Crow America.
Originally from Detroit, Barbara Dane's rich voice resonated with a sense of purpose that was a holdover from the singing she would provide at protests and union events. She performs once again in L.A. where many of her pivotal moments in music occurred.
This home recording studio in the desert has incubated a mesmerizing array of eclectic sounds — from Daniel Lanois to Victoria Williams to Queens of the Stone Age — and it began with a simple sign off Highway 62 that said ‘THREE HOUSES FOR RENT.'
In over 40 years of DJ culture, there have rarely been platforms for women, least of all of color, to talk about records, learn to mix, and importantly, play gigs — that changes with the proliferation of Chulita Vinyl Clubs around the Southwest.
Indonesia, the U.S., Colombia, Ghana are just some of the countries whose music has inspired Buyepongo.
Here on the West Coast, it seems like gigantic festivals have always been associated with the desert. But who was the first promoter to stake a claim out in the great, wide open, and how did others follow suit?
That warm feeling of community has been one of the constants of son jarocho, even as the genre’s music and traditions have spread.
Barely five feet tall and thin as a rail, Steven J. Salazar was a wunderkind, learning to master both the piano and guitar on his own by his teen years.
After dealing with multiple closures, moves and reinventions, the owner is making plans for a VIP museum and educational center that will hopefully provide as much inspiration and creativity as the store itself did throughout the '80s, '90s, & '00s.
Which songs shaped your youth? Eight Southern California tastemakers share the sounds that have influenced them — the music that underscores the region's kaleidoscopic youth cultures.